Northern Iberia abandoned its fortified Iron Age settlements around 400 BCE, then took far longer to rebuild

Around 400 BCE, people across northern Iberia left their fortified settlements and built new ones. A new study shows the move came in two stages with very different speeds. The old settlements emptied within a few decades. The new ones took far longer to spread. Samuel Nión-Álvarez of INCIPIT-CSIC built the timeline from 272 radiocarbon […]

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